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Thinks I, 'It's Asa Peters' daughter's young-one peddlin' clams. That's what come to my mind fust. That idee popped right into my head, it did." "Found plenty of room when it got there, I cal'late," snapped Dorinda. "Must have felt lonesome." "That's it! keep on pitchin' into me. I swan to man! sometimes I get so discouraged and wore out and reckless hello! here's Ros. You ask him now!
She undressed them dolls, every one of 'em, afore they turned in. Oh, yes, and she helped me make the bed, too. She CAN make a bed, blessed if she can't. And all the time a-talkin', one minute like a child and the next like a forty-year-old woman. She's the queerest young-one!" "I guess she's had a kind of queer bringin' up," said Zoeth.
Visits don't bind anybody to anything. Jumpin' Judas! I guess we've got room enough in the house to have one young-one come visitin' for for a couple of days, if we want to. What are you makin' such a fuss about? Here you," turning to the housekeeper, "ain't you gone yet? You've got just thirteen minutes to get that satchel ready." Mrs. Hobbs departed, outraged dignity in her walk and manner.
"Don't know," he answered. "That's what all hands are askin'. I presume likely she'll be looked after. Marcellus left plenty of money, didn't he? And kids with money can generally find guardians." "Yup, I guess that's so. Still, whoever gets her will have their hands full. She's the most old-fashioned, queerest young-one ever I saw." So much for Mr.
He beamed so proudly that Grandpa, wringing a sheet for Grandma, looked sorrowfully at him over his glasses. "It's a pity you didn't tell her sooner, young-one," he said. "The cranberries will be over in a few more days, and we'll be going back." "Back to Philadelphia?" Rose-Ellen demanded. "Where? Not to a Home? I won't! I'd rather go on and shuck oysters like Pauline Isabel and her folks.
Why in the name of hoss-stealin' he ever yearns for that young-one is allers too many for me. "When the abductor hears how Mace is on his trail, which he does from other Mexicans, he swings onto his bronco an' begins p'intin' out, takin' boy an' all. But Mace has got too far up on him, an' stops him mighty handy with a rifle.
Other visitors to the shop, those who knew him well, were surprised and amused to find him on such confidential and intimate terms with a child. Gabe Bearse, after one short call, reported about town that crazy Shavin's Winslow had taken up with a young-one just about as crazy as he was.
They meets an' shakes, that's all. They takes a drink together, which shows they's out to be friends for good, an' then Billy says: "'But what I wants partic'lar, 'Doby, is that you makes over to me your son Willyum. He's shore the finest young-one in Arizona, an' Marie an' me needs him to sorter organize on. "'Billy, says 'Doby, 'you-all an' me is partners for years, an' we're partners yet.
And that was a darned careless place to put it, too," he added, testily. "I'd have given any feller that worked for me the devil for doin' such a thing." Jed nodded, sympathetically. "But you might have left it there to Sylvester's," he said. "Have you thought of telephonin' to find out?" "Have I thought? Tut, tut, tut! Do you think I've got a head like a six-year-old young-one or you?
"Oh, it has, eh? Why?" "'Cause 'cause Ask him if he's sure?" Again Abner did not wait. "Course I'm sure," he replied. "I told Isaiah Chase yes, and I told that young-one, too that I looked at the clock just afore I looked out of the window and see the critter in the very act. Yes, and Con see him too." Mary-'Gusta stamped her foot in triumph. "Then it wasn't David," she said.
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